Hamm and Brest

Hamm and Brest

Photograph one is an oblique aerial photograph of Hamm, showing extensive damage and bomb craters throughout.
Photograph two is a vertical aerial photograph of Brest naval base and ports, with numbered annotation.

1945

Two b/w photographs on an album page

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

PThomasAF20040036

[photograph]
HAMM

1946. Hamm.
A photograph of probably the most famous railway station in Germany. In the early days of the war it seemed as if our aircraft were always going to Hamm. The amount of bomb craters around the target shows the amount of attention it received.

[photograph]
[underlined] G1105 [/underlined]
[underlined] BREST. [/underlined]

1939-45. Brest.
An aerial reconnaisance [sic] photograph of the harbour area of Brest, one of France’s principle ports. Clearly seen is the German Battleship ‘Gneisnau’. Also marked are other Dock installations & coastal shipping.